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(There have been no articles giving details of this year’s Jim Boeheim show. I had to call into the radio station to find out that the first show will be tonight. I’ll assume there has been no changes since last year. No schedule had been posted but the show is usually on a Thursday unless there is a game or a holiday that night.)
Jim Boeheim’s radio show is on Thursdays from 7-8 or 9PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show will likely start out on Zoom and not be at a local restaurant. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. The second hour, which usually begins with the conference season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
Or on Twitter at mattpark1 or “askBoeheim”.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometime simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
I will be posting my rough transcript the night of the broadcast focusing on my questions, the team and their last and next games and then a second post the next day on other things that were discussed.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
“Coach, against us Keve Aluma of Virginia Tech was 1 for 10 from the field, had 2 points and 4 rebounds and was in foul trouble the whole game. Against Virginia’s Jay Huff, Aluma was 10 for 15 from the field, scored 29 and grabbed 10 rebounds. What did we do to give Aluma such problems and is that something we could do to other ACC big men?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. The quotes may not be verbatim –they are from my scribbled notes. I have not knowingly changed the meaning. In recent years they have started out doing one hour shows and then shifted to two hour shows in January. When they do two hour shows. I might do two posts: one on the night of the broadcast on the issues directly relating to the team on the other the next days on other things that were talked about.)
Matt Park: “How did yesterday feel?” Jim Boeheim: “One guy takes the whole team out. Wea re lucky to have played 15 games. At Georgia Tech they don’t quarantine. If you are exposed less than 10 minutes, you don’t have to quarantine. But our health department says no….Louisville was tested Monday The results came in Tuesday night at 9-10 at night.” Matt asked about traveling with results still pending. Both our men’s team and our women’s team have done that. “You don’t get the test results back on time. You take the chance in case the game will be played…we were going to play Clemson, Louisville and Florida State at home and now we are playing them on the road. We already had Virginia scheduled on the road. Those are the four best teams in the conference. It’s crazy but that’s the way it is.”
Without any prodding Jim suddenly waded into the Kadary Richmond debate. “Kadary is playing 20 minutes a game. He’s just learning the game and conditioning. I’m not sure he can play more than 20 minutes a game….North Carolina got 62 inside points on us, Pittsburgh 46 and Virginia 60.” (The box score says UNC had 42 ‘points in the paint’, Pitt 40 and Virginia 26. I’ve studied the box scores and I don’t know what he is referring to.) Buddy and Joe are in the leagues’ top 10 in both assists and steals. It's not their fault. North Carolina’s front line hasn’t played that well against other teams but they were too physical for us. The guards don’t rebound in a zone. They defend the three point line and we are leading the league in defensive field goal percentage from the three point line. Rebounding is the problem. Marek is in position but he’s out-weighed. You can be out-rebounded by 7-8 and still win. Our turnover ratio is 1st or 2nd in the conference….Kadary is great. If he were playing 10 minutes a game, I could understand the criticism but he’s playing 20 minutes a game. Trevor Cooney had 4 million haters for four years here and he was a key player for our team.” (I hate the term ‘haters’: they are critics. Look to 9/11 or 1/6 to see what a ‘hater’ looks like.) Joe is shooting 34%, which is up form last year. Buddy is t 29.5% but that’s like shooting 44% from two. The defense can’t collapse on us because they are out there. We are getting better on offense but defense is the key. We’ve won games where we didn’t defend well and that’s hard to do.”
I called in my question about Keve Aluma. “That’s the only big guy we’ve stopped. We got a couple of fouls on him early. He was hesitant and missed a couple of easy shots. We got him uncomfortable and under control. Alan Griffin was all over the place (7 blocked shots). I’m glad we aren’t playing him again…We’re leading the league in blocked shots and yet our interior defense is weak. Georgia Tech blocked 11 Louisville shots and yet they lost by 20, (16).” I informed the coach that I always abbreviated ‘blocked shots’ as “BS” and got a big laugh. JB: “We get blocks from guards and forwards. Market stops the guy and our guards and forwards can elevate to block the shots.”
Matt had mentioned that nobody on Florida State was averaging more than 28 minutes a game. JB: “Virginia played 5 guys against NC State. They had two guys on the bench who had started before. They never played. NC State played only 6 guys. Villanova plays only 6 guys. Clemson and Florida State play a lot of guys but they are outliers. Very few teams do that.” Matt noted that Kadary plays more minutes than the Florida State point guard. JB: “he also plays more minutes than Dion Waiters did as a freshman and he was pretty good.”
The discussed the crazy scheduling during a pandemic. Matt said that “We could have played Wake Forest tonight”. Jim said “Everything is on the table”. Matt wondered if he’d be willing to play Louisville twice in Louisville. They mentioned that some conference was doing back-to-back games like that to make up postponements. (My distant memory clicked in: In 1966 Duke scheduled a trip to the coast to play UCLA. They decided to turn it into a double header and play them on successive nights to justify the 3,000 mile trip. Bad idea. It was the debut of Lew Alcindor. The Bruins won by 34 points the first night and 20 the second. I wonder how many of the people reading this know who Lew Alcindor is?) Jim indicated that was not on the table. “we lost home games with Florida State, Clemson and Louisville and were already schedule to play Virginia on the road. That’s the four best teams in the conference. The home field advent age ahs held up with year. Do you want additional road games? I don’t know. It’s an unparalleled situation. I don’t have any answers any more….Our only open space is after North Carolina. (Boston College now occupies the 2/13 spot originally ear-marked for a game against Pittsburgh whereas we will be playing Notre Dame on 2/20, when we were originally supposed to be playing BC) The ACC Tournament will go on for financial reasons. There won’t be a crowd but the TV money is sufficient. The right thing for an NCAA contender to do is to not risk going to conference tournaments. What if Gonzaga caught CoVid?” he discussed the limitations on recruiting. “What if we go recruiting and get quarantined? If a prospect makes a visit, he ahs to quarantine when he gets here.” He then complained about a law in Congress to allow players to keep a share of all the money made off of them, including form gambling.
Senator Chris Murphy proposes legislation for college athletes to profit off their likeness
“They can’t pass legislation to get money for people that need it. And they want to run college sports?”
Ron in Rochester, (I think I got that right), said that a ‘radio guy’ there had said that Kadary should be playing. JB: “HE IS PLAYING! We see everybody in practice and we know whether they can help us or not.” The radio guy complained about the time Joe Girard was getting. JB: “Joe is shooting well and his assist to turnover ratio is good. His numbers are all good. Joe ahs 26 steals. Kadary has 24, although Joe has played more minutes. All three should and are playing. Our offense is not the problem. Defensive guard play is not our problem. Our interior defense and rebounding is not good enough. That is our problem. I’m as big a fan of Kadary as anyone. He’s played as much as 29 minutes when he’s going good. Je Girard is not playing that badly.”
They talked about our next opponent, Clemson. “They just held North Carolina to 50 points. North Carolina had bene playing well. They were playing great when the CoVid knocked them out and they were getting beaten by 25. The tigers had lost 69 game sin a row in Chapel Hill before last year….Florida State has lost a bunch of games due to CoVid. Boston College might have had to play with 4-5 scholarship players if the last one hadn’t been canceled. I would never allow that to happen to our team…..Miami was playing poorly but beat Duke. College basketball ahs been crazy lately. Virginia Tech was down 8 at half against Virginia then had a 19-0 run and won going away. Then Pitt has a similar streak against them. The Virginia NC State game could have gone either way. Georgetown beat Creighton. St. John ‘s easily beat Villanova. It’s college basketball. You just don’t know what’s going on. CoVid has made it different. You don’t know what’s going on night after night.
Josh In Boulder, Colorado was a tennis instructor at IMG Academy and saw Jesse Edwards play there. He thinks he should be playing here, too. “I know he’s good. I wonder what Coach wants to see from him. JB: “He was only at IMG for one semester and didn’t play on the varsity. He hasn’t played much basketball. He’s got some skills. He can pass and shoot But he’s got to be more physical. He’s seven feet tall and only 220 pounds, (he is?) and that’s not enough.” Josh responded that “Every at IMG is viewed as a potential pro, regardless of sport. He has a lot of talent and we need him.” JB: “100% right. We are hopeful that he can help us. The year isn’t over yet but it will probably be next year.” He said that IMG is “a great operation.”
Matt had failed to ask Jim about Hank Aaron last week. It turns out that Aaron is his all-time favorite baseball player and that he was a Braves fan as a kid. After we lost to Indiana in 1987, Hank Aaron walked up to the coach and told him that his team had had a great season and he should be proud of them. Jim was speechless. “He’s greatest modern player and representative for the game.”
Jim Boeheim’s radio show is on Thursdays from 7-8 or 9PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show will likely start out on Zoom and not be at a local restaurant. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. The second hour, which usually begins with the conference season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
Or on Twitter at mattpark1 or “askBoeheim”.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometime simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
I will be posting my rough transcript the night of the broadcast focusing on my questions, the team and their last and next games and then a second post the next day on other things that were discussed.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
“Coach, against us Keve Aluma of Virginia Tech was 1 for 10 from the field, had 2 points and 4 rebounds and was in foul trouble the whole game. Against Virginia’s Jay Huff, Aluma was 10 for 15 from the field, scored 29 and grabbed 10 rebounds. What did we do to give Aluma such problems and is that something we could do to other ACC big men?”
COACH BOEHEIM
(I have, in some instances, put together statements from different parts of the broadcast on the same subject. The quotes may not be verbatim –they are from my scribbled notes. I have not knowingly changed the meaning. In recent years they have started out doing one hour shows and then shifted to two hour shows in January. When they do two hour shows. I might do two posts: one on the night of the broadcast on the issues directly relating to the team on the other the next days on other things that were talked about.)
Matt Park: “How did yesterday feel?” Jim Boeheim: “One guy takes the whole team out. Wea re lucky to have played 15 games. At Georgia Tech they don’t quarantine. If you are exposed less than 10 minutes, you don’t have to quarantine. But our health department says no….Louisville was tested Monday The results came in Tuesday night at 9-10 at night.” Matt asked about traveling with results still pending. Both our men’s team and our women’s team have done that. “You don’t get the test results back on time. You take the chance in case the game will be played…we were going to play Clemson, Louisville and Florida State at home and now we are playing them on the road. We already had Virginia scheduled on the road. Those are the four best teams in the conference. It’s crazy but that’s the way it is.”
Without any prodding Jim suddenly waded into the Kadary Richmond debate. “Kadary is playing 20 minutes a game. He’s just learning the game and conditioning. I’m not sure he can play more than 20 minutes a game….North Carolina got 62 inside points on us, Pittsburgh 46 and Virginia 60.” (The box score says UNC had 42 ‘points in the paint’, Pitt 40 and Virginia 26. I’ve studied the box scores and I don’t know what he is referring to.) Buddy and Joe are in the leagues’ top 10 in both assists and steals. It's not their fault. North Carolina’s front line hasn’t played that well against other teams but they were too physical for us. The guards don’t rebound in a zone. They defend the three point line and we are leading the league in defensive field goal percentage from the three point line. Rebounding is the problem. Marek is in position but he’s out-weighed. You can be out-rebounded by 7-8 and still win. Our turnover ratio is 1st or 2nd in the conference….Kadary is great. If he were playing 10 minutes a game, I could understand the criticism but he’s playing 20 minutes a game. Trevor Cooney had 4 million haters for four years here and he was a key player for our team.” (I hate the term ‘haters’: they are critics. Look to 9/11 or 1/6 to see what a ‘hater’ looks like.) Joe is shooting 34%, which is up form last year. Buddy is t 29.5% but that’s like shooting 44% from two. The defense can’t collapse on us because they are out there. We are getting better on offense but defense is the key. We’ve won games where we didn’t defend well and that’s hard to do.”
I called in my question about Keve Aluma. “That’s the only big guy we’ve stopped. We got a couple of fouls on him early. He was hesitant and missed a couple of easy shots. We got him uncomfortable and under control. Alan Griffin was all over the place (7 blocked shots). I’m glad we aren’t playing him again…We’re leading the league in blocked shots and yet our interior defense is weak. Georgia Tech blocked 11 Louisville shots and yet they lost by 20, (16).” I informed the coach that I always abbreviated ‘blocked shots’ as “BS” and got a big laugh. JB: “We get blocks from guards and forwards. Market stops the guy and our guards and forwards can elevate to block the shots.”
Matt had mentioned that nobody on Florida State was averaging more than 28 minutes a game. JB: “Virginia played 5 guys against NC State. They had two guys on the bench who had started before. They never played. NC State played only 6 guys. Villanova plays only 6 guys. Clemson and Florida State play a lot of guys but they are outliers. Very few teams do that.” Matt noted that Kadary plays more minutes than the Florida State point guard. JB: “he also plays more minutes than Dion Waiters did as a freshman and he was pretty good.”
The discussed the crazy scheduling during a pandemic. Matt said that “We could have played Wake Forest tonight”. Jim said “Everything is on the table”. Matt wondered if he’d be willing to play Louisville twice in Louisville. They mentioned that some conference was doing back-to-back games like that to make up postponements. (My distant memory clicked in: In 1966 Duke scheduled a trip to the coast to play UCLA. They decided to turn it into a double header and play them on successive nights to justify the 3,000 mile trip. Bad idea. It was the debut of Lew Alcindor. The Bruins won by 34 points the first night and 20 the second. I wonder how many of the people reading this know who Lew Alcindor is?) Jim indicated that was not on the table. “we lost home games with Florida State, Clemson and Louisville and were already schedule to play Virginia on the road. That’s the four best teams in the conference. The home field advent age ahs held up with year. Do you want additional road games? I don’t know. It’s an unparalleled situation. I don’t have any answers any more….Our only open space is after North Carolina. (Boston College now occupies the 2/13 spot originally ear-marked for a game against Pittsburgh whereas we will be playing Notre Dame on 2/20, when we were originally supposed to be playing BC) The ACC Tournament will go on for financial reasons. There won’t be a crowd but the TV money is sufficient. The right thing for an NCAA contender to do is to not risk going to conference tournaments. What if Gonzaga caught CoVid?” he discussed the limitations on recruiting. “What if we go recruiting and get quarantined? If a prospect makes a visit, he ahs to quarantine when he gets here.” He then complained about a law in Congress to allow players to keep a share of all the money made off of them, including form gambling.
Senator Chris Murphy proposes legislation for college athletes to profit off their likeness
“They can’t pass legislation to get money for people that need it. And they want to run college sports?”
Ron in Rochester, (I think I got that right), said that a ‘radio guy’ there had said that Kadary should be playing. JB: “HE IS PLAYING! We see everybody in practice and we know whether they can help us or not.” The radio guy complained about the time Joe Girard was getting. JB: “Joe is shooting well and his assist to turnover ratio is good. His numbers are all good. Joe ahs 26 steals. Kadary has 24, although Joe has played more minutes. All three should and are playing. Our offense is not the problem. Defensive guard play is not our problem. Our interior defense and rebounding is not good enough. That is our problem. I’m as big a fan of Kadary as anyone. He’s played as much as 29 minutes when he’s going good. Je Girard is not playing that badly.”
They talked about our next opponent, Clemson. “They just held North Carolina to 50 points. North Carolina had bene playing well. They were playing great when the CoVid knocked them out and they were getting beaten by 25. The tigers had lost 69 game sin a row in Chapel Hill before last year….Florida State has lost a bunch of games due to CoVid. Boston College might have had to play with 4-5 scholarship players if the last one hadn’t been canceled. I would never allow that to happen to our team…..Miami was playing poorly but beat Duke. College basketball ahs been crazy lately. Virginia Tech was down 8 at half against Virginia then had a 19-0 run and won going away. Then Pitt has a similar streak against them. The Virginia NC State game could have gone either way. Georgetown beat Creighton. St. John ‘s easily beat Villanova. It’s college basketball. You just don’t know what’s going on. CoVid has made it different. You don’t know what’s going on night after night.
Josh In Boulder, Colorado was a tennis instructor at IMG Academy and saw Jesse Edwards play there. He thinks he should be playing here, too. “I know he’s good. I wonder what Coach wants to see from him. JB: “He was only at IMG for one semester and didn’t play on the varsity. He hasn’t played much basketball. He’s got some skills. He can pass and shoot But he’s got to be more physical. He’s seven feet tall and only 220 pounds, (he is?) and that’s not enough.” Josh responded that “Every at IMG is viewed as a potential pro, regardless of sport. He has a lot of talent and we need him.” JB: “100% right. We are hopeful that he can help us. The year isn’t over yet but it will probably be next year.” He said that IMG is “a great operation.”
Matt had failed to ask Jim about Hank Aaron last week. It turns out that Aaron is his all-time favorite baseball player and that he was a Braves fan as a kid. After we lost to Indiana in 1987, Hank Aaron walked up to the coach and told him that his team had had a great season and he should be proud of them. Jim was speechless. “He’s greatest modern player and representative for the game.”
